New garden village will eventually feature 10,000 homes
Arup has been appointed to lead the next phase of masterplanning for Carlisle’s St Cuthbert’s Garden Village project which will eventually see around 10,000 new homes being built to the south of the city.
Arup will be supported by Hive Land and Planning in working on part two of the masterplan, which will ultimately become the St Cuthbert’s Garden Village Local Plan.
The first phase of the masterplan was carried out by Gillespies, whose recent activity includes work on the Waterfront scheme at the Royal Arsenal site in Woolwich, south London.
As well as the 10,000 proposed homes, including what Carlisle described as a “significant provision of affordable housing”, St Cuthbert’s – the government’s largest garden village scheme – will lead to a series of infrastructure improvements, including delivery of the Carlisle Southern Link Road.
A Carlisle City Council spokesperson said: “The Stage 2 Masterplanning should be concluded by the end of 2019. It will be through this more detailed work that we better understand the possible phasing of development, including opportunities for early starts.
”Work to date supports that the whole area could take approximately 25 years to build out in full. Assuming some completions from 2021 onwards takes us through to 2046, but we would stress this is a working assumption.
“We are updating our evidence on housing need including affordable and other specialist forms of provision. This coupled with ongoing viability work in parallel to the emerging masterplan will inform what percentage we can realistically deliver, but maximising affordable supply is one of a number of important local priorities.”
Karen Donnelly, Arup project manager, said St Cuthbert’s would create “significant growth for the Borderlands region by providing high-quality homes and vital transport links for local people”.
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